Waste of time

Excellent but underrated film

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Going on a road-trip together, two brothers and their girlfriends going to reenlist in the Army find their stop-off in Texas puts them into contact with the vicious Hewitt family and their chainsaw- wielding son Leatherface and must find a way of getting away alive.This one was a pretty big disappointment, and only has several good things throughout it. One of the biggest positives for this one is that this ups considerably the two factors that had plagued the previous entries in the gore and body count. This one has almost enough deaths than all the previous entries alone, and it generates these through some rather some fun scenes in here. The car chase from the bar and the resulting crash where they get confronted by the family is quite a rather chilling sequence where they get taken away in a creepy manner, while the cutting scenes in the basement are quite stomach-churning there's quite a lot more to like here from the creepiness of the family as they hold the friends hostage. From their torture methods of continually hitting them to continually forcing them to perform arduous tasks in impossible conditions and leaving traps that prevent their escape to their sheer calmness at all of the brutality unleashed and all of their bizarre traditions, they seem weird and creepy which is a great facet that lets the gore really fly in here. The only other thing that works is the final chase through the meat factory which is really great as well, being a really long, brutal and exceptionally gory sequence in a creepy location with an emphasis on suspense and is full of action that soon leads into the great confrontation in the car that ends this in a great manner. These are all that work for the film as this one is a really big disappointment, especially against the first one. The fact that there's very little going is a big one, since it never really does anything interesting for most of the movie with little slashes of interesting scenes here and there, but most of it concerns the group talking or the family making threats against them, and that is a major source of frustration. This is due to them holding them captive for a while and yet there's a long time in between before they start killing with most of that time spent on making threats coupled with pretty mild torture scenes before it leads to killing. There's also the fact that this one also suffers from what the others in the series suffer from, namely the lack of threat from Leatherface as the amount of screen time for Leatherface is quite minimal, making it hard to feel anything but the terror evinced from what he's doing. There's no motive for what's happening and that works even less in building fear for him. That he causes only a couple of deaths is another disappointment, since there's only so much that he can do that at some point it just becomes rudimentary that others would have a higher kill total. That there is the biggest one in lowering the threat of the villain, and also helps to sink the film a lot, as well as its other flaws.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

It's been awhile since I've watched this prequel to the 2003 remake, and it's much better than I remembered. It is incredibly gory and more 'over the top' than the original. I love ridiculous amounts of gore. Since this was a prequel, they should have explored Leatherface's childhood more, but they glance over it slightly during the credits. Hopefully the next prequel will show some. (They are making a prequel to the 1974 classic) This film takes place in 1969, set four years before the events of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake. Two brothers named Dean and Eric are on there way to enlist in the Vietnam War. Eric wants to stay with his girlfriend, Bailey. Dean is engaged to Chrissie. On their way, they are attacked by bikers and soon run into Sheriff Hoyt, played again by the vicious R. Lee Ermey. We see how Thomas Hewitt becomes the infamous 'Leatherface' and his first time torturing his victims with a chainsaw. If you love violence, extreme gore, and prequels, you'll love THE Texas CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING!!!

The year is 1969 and a microcosm in South Texas has ultimately decided to pull a fast one.What matters here and now is not something as ill-conceived as superstitious religion but it is the fact that the Hewitt (previously Sawyer) family can manage to be themselves that I find very informative.At the absolute last minute it becomes amazingly clear the family's fortunes have been as extremely off-set by self-deluded status seekers (glory-hounds, yuppies, etc) that it effectively necessitates a blood bath.The underlining question to the story in this franchise is: Can the impostors get away fast enough?The Hewitt family shines in the land of South Texas.

This was one of the movies I re-watched during my annual horror-movie watching fest during Halloween.TCM the Beginning has been unfairly criticized and panned from people who say things like "there isn't anything new," or "who cares how Leatherface came to be?" Yet the filmmakers themselves said they made the movie partly in response to reams of mail they received asking about how Pa Hewitt came to be sheriff and how his brother-in-law lost his legs (both answered in this movie).From a writer's point of view, there are nice little subtleties about the script to keep the viewer engaged and caring about the characters. Without giving too much away, the poor good looking young people who get tortured this time are a couple of brothers on their way to re-enlist to return to Vietnam (this movie is set four years before either of the originals) and their pretty girlfriends.Other people get involved but the producers wisely stayed away from some of the silly, crowded-cast shenanigans of either "Next Generation" or TCM2.It does kind of end with a thud, as some people have complained, but part of that is because Sheriff Hewitt and Leatherface have to be around, totally intact, for the story that will come four years later.